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Should you become an adult at 18 and be allowed alcohol? Should alcohol be outright banned? Do you agree with the saying if you are old enough to fight and die, you are old enough to drink? Is 21 fine? Would you rather it was 16 like in Europe?

Should you become an adult at 18 and be allowed alcohol? Should alcohol be outright banned? Do you agree with the saying if you are old enough to fight and die, you are old enough to drink? Is 21 fine? Would you rather it was 16 like in Europe?

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18
Alcohol fucks up too many people. Ban it
16 or other (explain in comments)
Fuck You!

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[–] • 3 pts

It's not a problem in France.

If it's a problem, prosecute for child abuse. Let a jury decide.

[–] • 0 pt

How can you prosecute it if it's legal? You know the legal age in France for alcohol is 18?

[–] • 0 pt

So... first of all... the drinking age isn't 18. That's for buying hard shit by yourself. The letter of the law is... more nuanced.

https://www.frenchlearner.com/culture/drinking-age-france/

In practice, the boundaries are mostly social and cultural. Things may have changed recently, but the kids drinking at 8 are getting heavily watered wine from their parents to teach them pairings and shit.

Now you could say that this is also child abuse, but I would say let a jury decide.

And there are all kinds of laws that are in practice not enforced, but can be if people make nuisances of themselves.

Ultimately, they don't have problems we have with teenagers binge drinking that we do, because our kids are taught to drink by a frat guy in a frat house at a frat party, whereas the the French are taught to drink by their parents in their home at dinner.